Viewing the calendars

On the sidebar, there are a couple of links to Group calendars. It is our intention to use our Google calendars as the source data for our calendars. This means that no matter where you find an on-line Group calendar, it should be drawing its dates and detail from the same location. We're starting with the calendars here on the blog but you may find soon that we also have the calendars on the Horizons website and also on the CDEM Group website once this is finally up and running. If you want the code to link our calendars to your site, please let me know.

In the past, we've posted a pdf of our calendar to the website - not only was this long winded, but often we would get conflicting calenders. Using an on-line calendar will hopefully eliminate this risk - with the current on-line version being the latest.

I have discovered that you need to be logged into a Google account to view the calendar - its pretty painless and you can use your existing e-mail account to create a Google account (if you don't already have one) - I'd strongly recommend it. Just follow the simple instructions and don't forget to verify your account from the e-mail they send you.

What's with these calendars?

Eventually, the calendars below will roll off the screen - you can find them again by clicking on the link under important stuff. This is a little bit of an on-line experiment I must admit. By putting the calendars up in this form, we can update the calendar in real-time. We don't need to wait for changes to be published, and then passed on for putting up on the website.

Depending on the up take, it also means that anyone with permission can edit information contained in the calendars. The end goal here is to have a consolidated calendar that is updated in one place. If member councils choose to, they can have the calendar showing up on their website or blog too - the data will come from the same place so the calendars will all say the same thing (no out of date stuff on the sites).

Once the CDEM Group website is live, we'll have the calendars there too - there won't be any double or triple handling, just linking to the source. Let's see how it goes.

Meeting calendar

Training calendar